In a battle of the young and the old, 21-year-old Priyanshu Rajawat trounced 30-year-old Kidambi Srikanth 21-13, 21-8 to set up an enticing semifinal against HS Prannoy in the Australian Open BWF Super-500 tournament in Sydney. Prannoy ousted top seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia 16-21, 21-17, 21-14 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
All the three shuttlers --Srikanth, Priyanshu and Prannoy -train with Pullela Gopichand. Priyanshu joined the Gopichand Academy in Madhya Pradesh as an eight-year-old.